Eberhard Baldewein, Celestial globe clock

INTRODUCTION
- Man and the stars
SECTION I
- The dawn of astronomy: Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Biblical Cosmos
SECTION II
- The cosmos becomes a sphere
SECTION III
- The geometry of the cosmos
SECTION IV
- The skies of Islam
SECTION V
- Evangelisation of the cosmos
SECTION VI
- The Renaissance of Astronomy
SECTION VII
- Galileo: the cosmos through the telescope
SECTION VIII
- From Galileo to Newton

Eberhard Baldewein, Celestial globe clock

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Eberhard Baldewein (ca. 1525-1593)
Celestial globe clock, Kassel, 1574
Paris, Collection Kugel

This instrument, built by a craftsman who enjoyed immense prestige in his day, is the oldest mechanical celestial sphere to have been built in Germany.